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	<itunes:summary>Record the Stories of Your Life, tips, how-to, memoir book reviews, by Jerry Waxler</itunes:summary>
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		<title>Parent&#8217;s Memoir Part 3b, Guide for Ghost Writer&#8217;s Interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 12:30:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, you have learned to avoid topics your parents prefer not talking about. In order to get the story,  you need to break these taboos. Consider James McBride's memoir "Color of Water." His mother had angrily told him to mind his own business whenever he asked her about his past. As she grew older, he realized her past was going to die with her and he grew increasingly insistent.  <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/parent-ghost-write-pt3/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Parent&#8217;s Memoir Part 3a, Guiding a Ghost Writer&#8217;s Interview</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:27:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If your interviewee tends to speak in terms of ideas, summaries, and overviews, their memories won't allow a reader inside their experience. To write compelling scenes, ask for more sensory information, dialog, and thought processes. "What did you see, hear, taste, touch and smell?" In addition to the senses, ask them about their introspective world. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/parent-ghost-write-pt3a/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Protagonist of a Memoir Must have a Goal and Obstacles</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 13:55:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the fundamental elements in every story is the reader's identification with the protagonist. This protagonist doesn't just stand there. He or she wants something, and then moves toward it, while we readers turn pages to overcome the obstacles. In Andre Agassi's "Open" the pressure to push against obstacles generates enormous tension that makes the story move like a novel.  <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/protagonist-goal-obstacles/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Memoir Lessons: Mysteries of emerging consciousness</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Jeremy was using his words to explain his actions, and that’s what memoir writers do, too. Your whole memoir is an attempt to describe how your life works, from inside your point of view. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/lessons-memoir-consciousness/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Four More Writing Lessons from Reading a Memoir</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2010 13:03:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Consider one scene in which Beth Kephart uses a delicious strategy to tell about her earlier life while maintaining firm authorial control over the present. In the scene, a snowstorm traps her alone in the house with her son. She doesn't want to leave him alone so she demands that he listen to a story.  <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/lessons-memoir-5-8/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Use this memoir as a study guide: lessons 1 to 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2010 12:53:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Her journey to help her son enter the game of life abounds with courage, psychological sleuthing, and love. It is a warm coming of age story of two people: Jeremy's development into childhood, and his mother's maturity as the shepherd of her son. I learned so much from reading the book that I think it would make an excellent self-study or teacher-led training manual for memoir writers. In this and the following posts, I share 20 lessons I learned from the book, and offer suggestions about how you can apply these ideas to your own memoir. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/memoir-study-guide-lessons-1/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>How to write a profile</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/how-to-write-a-profile/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:43:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I acquired items for my list in a variety of ways. Some I experienced myself. Others I learned by watching students in my workshops or groups. And some I speculated must be true. For example, I assumed that after I told my own story, I would gain the skills to write other people's stories, as well. The benefit seemed self-evident, but I was not yet ready to test it. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/how-to-write-a-profile/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Life&#8217;s desires create the chapters of our story</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/desire-creates-chapters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jerrywaxler</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Every time I finish reading a memoir, I wonder how the author turned life into a story. After years of trying, I believe I have found a simple formula. Each book follows the author from the seed of some desire, through the journey, until they achieve their goal. Now all I need to do is apply that formula to my own memories. For every desire that propelled me, I search for the path it forced me to travel. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/desire-creates-chapters/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Your Autobiography is the First Step Towards Writing Your Memoir</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/autobiography-step-memoir/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:53:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[But I don't feel done. I want to take the next step and share my life with others. The problem is that readers don't want a compendium of my entire life. They want a Story - that is, a dramatic form that we all have learned since we were children. My life does not by itself contain this form. To engage readers, I must find it. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/autobiography-step-memoir/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is a Travel Memoir Really a Memoir?</title>
		<link>http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/travel-memoirs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 12:27:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In fact, in my perfect world, the book store would have a whole bank of memoirs and autobiographies, including sub-sections for Coming of Age, Overcoming Hardship, and Travel memoirs, to name a few. Here are a few of the features of travel memoirs you might consider when reading your next one, or planning your own. <a href="http://memorywritersnetwork.com/blog/travel-memoirs/">Continue reading <span class="meta-nav">&#8594;</span></a>]]></description>
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